Re: building binary-only package with different name?
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Peter van Rossum wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:56:29PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote:
> > If you're just going to put these on the webpage, why would you even need
> > the .changes file? (And the .dsc is only for the source package, so you
> > don't need that for the potato build either)
> >
> > I'd put the potato and woody build in different directories, then I
> > wouldn't need to rename, but if you don't want to, I don't see why you
> > can't rename the potato build and drop the .changes file.
>
> That's certainly a valid question. In fact, I lied :-) I don't want
> to put them just on the web page, I also want to keep them (both) in
> my local tree of packages and be able to install and de-install them at
> will with dpkg or apt. That's the real reason I want to have different names.
dpkg-scanpackages don't need the .changes file either. I have an apt-able
http repository for my potato packages and I didn't need to put any
.changes in there.
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